php string replace vs regex

For all you budding php developers out there who are now experimenting with regular expressions and data clean up, I advise you think twice before using regex over a simple str_replace. If you are performing complex string replacements regex is the best choice and will give you a performance boost over using many str_replace ( and other functions ) in place of using one regular expression. There have been tests showing that using multiple preg_replace functions in a row can perform better than u... read more!

Aug 14, 2009 10:55am by Mike Vandenberghe

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